Material handling device



July 20, 1937. A N ET AL 2,087,877

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July 20, 1937. H. c. RALSTON ET AL 2,037,377

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Patented M 20, 1931 I a 2,037,377

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MATERIAL HANDLING DEVICE Harley C; Ralston and Thomas D. Williams, Cleveland, Ohio, assignors to The American Steel and Wire Company of New Jersey,'a corporation of New Jersey Application July 25, 1934, Serial No. 736,918 3 Claims. (01. 294-106) This invention is a device for handling an upally 7 depending from said frame and having right pile of substantially concentrically arranged hooked lower ends, said arms being arranged so coils, the object being to lift and carry such a that they may encompasssaid pile and so that pile without danger of its being dropped. A their hooked endsmay swing beneath the botfurther object is to provide a device of this tom coil in the-same, avertical reciprocative bar 5 general character which is of a rigid construccentrally arra g d thlpugh Said frame, a Spider tion, other objects may be inf rr d, fixed to said bar beneath said frame, links inter- Referring to the accompanying drawings; connecting said spider and said arms, whereby Figure 1 is an elevation of the device. application of lifting force to Saidforces lil Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of details at said arms together, and fixed arms depending th t of th device, from said frame and which are constructed and Figure 3 is a cross-section from the line III-III arranged to enter a steady at l st one of the in Figure 2. upper coils in. said pile when said hooked ends Figure 4 is a longitudinal section on the line are beneath t e bottom coil in the latter. 1.) 1v .1v of Figure 2 2. A device for handling an upright pile of sub- More specifically, the device includes the combistantially concentrically rr n ils, includnation of a frame I, arms 2 pivotally depending s the combination Of frame, arms pivotally from the frame I and having hooked lower ends depending m Said frame and having hooked 2?, these arms being arranged so that they may lower ends, said arms being arranged so that they encompass the pile 3 to be handled and so that y encompass said p and so that their h k their hooked ends may swing beneath the bottom ends y Swing beneath e bottom coil in the coil in the same, a vertical reciprocative bar 4 Same, a Vertical reciprocative bar Centrally a arranged through the frame I, a spider 5 secured ranged through d frame, a Spider fi ed to said to the bar 4 ben th th frame 1, l k 5 t bar beneath said frame, links interconnecting connecting the spider 5 and the arms 2, whereby Said spider and said arms, whereby application 2 application of lifting force to the bar 4 forces the of lifting force to Said bar forces S d arms toarms 2 together, and fixed arms 1 depending eether, and fiXed arms depending om Said from the frame l and which are constructed and frame a which a constructed d ar an ed arranged to enter and steady at least one of the to enter and steady at least one of the upper 31) upper coils in the pile 3 when the hooked arms 2 coils in said pile when said hooked ends are beare beneath the bottom coil in the latter. n a the'bottom coil in the t sa d links The links 6 each provide laterally spaced parts each providing laterally Spaced parallel p ts and 6, and the fixed arms I depend through these Said fi arms depending through d p ts and parts and function to guide the same. Actually, functioning to guide the Same. the parts 6* are each two links arranged parallel A device for handling a upri ht pile of 3 in spaced relationshi to form a set, each set substantially concentrically arranged oils, ininterconnecting one of the arms 2 to the spider eludin d p n arms spa t s add said a, 5, and encompassing one of th r 1, h pile when said device is lowered thereover and, portions of the depending arms I which parallel having inwardly o e ooked lower ends the movement of the spider 5 are spaced sufp nt n d y to engage the bottom of -i0 fieiently a art to accommodate the latter, while bottom coil of said pile when said arms straddle 1 their lower ends come closer together and have the me and said ower ends are moved inrounded ends to permit their easy entry within I w r y, s i device including ms d p n in the coil or coils in the top of the pile 3. between the first named arms in such arrange- The device also includes a latch 8 which funcmerit s to completely ent at least the to'p coil-n5 tio s t h ld th arms 2 with their end swung v of said pile when said device is lowered onto the I apart. This latch is released when the pile is same to efiect straddling thereof by the first to be engaged. named arms, said device also including means We claim: for inwardly moving and holding said hooked 5o 1; A device for handling an upright pile of lower ends of the first named arms. 5 substantially concentrically arranged coils, in- THOMAS D. WILLIAMS.

cluding the combination of a frame, arms pivot- HARLEY C. RALSTON. 

